# 髭

| 髭 | U+9AED, &#39661; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AED |
| ← 髬 [U+9AEC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 髮 → [U+9AEE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

髭 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹卜一心 (SHYMP), four-corner 7211$_1$, composition ⿱髟此)
* mustache

#### Related characters

* 鬚

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1453, character 20
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45399
* Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4524, character 4
* Unihan data for U+9AED

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髭 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 些 | *saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs |
| 跐 | *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ |
| 柴 | *zreː |
| 祡 | *zreː |
| 茈 | *zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze |
| 眦 | *zreːs |
| 砦 | *zraːds |
| 寨 | *zraːds, *slɯːɡ |
| 啙 | *ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ |
| 泚 | *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ |
| 玼 | *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze |
| 皉 | *sʰeːʔ |
| 鮆 | *zeːʔ, *ʔse |
| 眥 | *zeːs, *zes |
| 貲 | *ʔse |
| 髭 | *ʔse |
| 頾 | *ʔse |
| 訾 | *ʔse, *ʔseʔ |
| 鴜 | *ʔse, *ze |
| 鈭 | *ʔse, *sʰe |
| 姕 | *ʔse, *sʰe, *ze |
| 觜 | *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ |
| 紫 | *ʔseʔ |
| 訿 | *ʔseʔ |
| 呰 | *ʔseʔ |
| 嘴 | *ʔseʔ |
| 雌 | *sʰe |
| 此 | *sʰeʔ |
| 佌 | *sʰeʔ, *seʔ |
| 庛 | *sʰes |
| 疵 | *ze |
| 骴 | *ze, *zes |
| 胔 | *ze, *zes |
| 飺 | *ze |
| 齜 | *ʔsre |
Originally a pictogram (象形) depicting a man with a prominent mustache.
Later written 頿 or 頾, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔse) : semantic 須 (“beard”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ), where 須 is the original form of 鬚.
In the modern form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔse) : semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zī (zi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zī
*** Zhuyin: ㄗ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zih
*** Wade–Giles: tzŭ$^1$
*** Yale: dz̄
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
*** Palladius: цзы (czy)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^1$
*** Yale: jī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tsje
Rime :
| Character | 髭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 即移切 |
| Baxter | tsje |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡siᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡siɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡siə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sie/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sǐe/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔse/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 髭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1703 |
| Phonetic component | 此 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 貲 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔse/ |
| Notes | 頾字注或體 |

### Definitions

髭
* moustache

### Compounds

* 髭髭著
* 髭鬚 / 髭须
* 鬍髭 / 胡髭

### References

* “髭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* mustache

#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kun: ひげ (hige, 髭)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 髭
* ひげ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 髭 – see the following entry. :
| 【ひげ】 | [noun] (loosely) facial hair on the upper lip region, the chin, and the cheeks [noun] 髭: mustache [noun] (figurative) whiskers (of animals) [noun] (figurative) antennae (of insects) [noun] (figurative) corn silk Alternative spellings 鬚, 髯 |
(This term, 髭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Derived terms

* 髭雀(ヒゲガラ) (higegara)
* 岩髭(イワヒゲ) (iwahige)
* 口(くち)髭(ひげ) (kuchihige)
* 龍(タツ)の髭(ヒゲ) (tatsunohige)
* 頬(ほお)髭(ひげ) (hōhige)
* 竜(リュウ)の髭(ヒゲ) (ryūnohige)

## Korean
### Hanja

髭 (eum 자 (ja))
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